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Unitree has plenty other industrial robots. https://www.unitree.com/ -> Click Robots

I wasn't trying to say that Unitree is somehow deficient. I'm sure they could build Atlas if they wanted.

My point was that BD could probably build a robot with the shown acrobatic capabilities, but they choose not to because their goal is to build robots that carry heavy loads for industrial applications.


They also wouldn't be getting any funding for doing such fun demos, even if they wanted to.

To best understand the speed of progress right now, take a look at the show from last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIq_AM4q534

It looks like the difference between the Boston Dynamics robots 2016 vs 2021

The Spot dog (which inspired the Black Mirror "Metalhead" episode) in 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng

Atlas doing backflips in 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FByY3tSx2Ak

So 5 years of progress within a year.


spot dog is hydraulically powered junk, unitree is motor driven from day one. Boston Dynamics was forced to switch to a motor driven architecture after it is proven by unitree.

Boston Dynamics is the follower here.


I look after one at a University that gets used for teaching & outreach & there's definitely no hydraulics on the thing.

They moved to motors from their older high speed hydraulics. I don't know if it was after unitree or not.

why is hydraulics junk?

Perhaps because of the potentially slower actuation speed, but you also generally get a lot more power from hydraulics so im not sure one can claim it is junk. Far less acrobatic, but also far more sumo wrestler.

Less fit for impressive youtube videos. I'm sure they have other boring utilities for the technology.

Irrelevant?? Millions of obese Americans will disagree.


At first I thought you meant bacon. But then remembered decent bacon like from Denmark is illegal in the US. Then I realized what you mean. But Lilly makes the same drug so probably not a practical issue.


Really no reason to speculate. Could be a life crisis, ill health ect.


It has really been a great success in Denmark.

In the 1960s, more than 900 people were diagnosed with cervical cancer each year, corresponding to more than 40 cases per 100,000 Danes.

Today, that number is below 10 per 100,000 nationwide – and among women aged 20 to 29, only 3 out of 100,000 are affected. This is below the WHO’s threshold for elimination of the disease.


She is not a household name in Denmark. But we do have a big mural of her, here in Copenhagen [1].

[1] https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/99...


I had to look twice, and then check Wikipedia, when I saw "1888-1993" there.

* 13. Mai 1888 in Kopenhagen

† 21. Februar 1993 in Kopenhagen

That's 104 years, 9 months, and 8 days!


Google Street View link showing the murial: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nfSzrb3CFPKowZ4p9?g_st=ac


32 could easily be aligned with parenthood


> In short, I strongly disagree with Brian Goetz that Functional Reactive Programming is transitional.

Yes, a transitional technology for the _Java Language/Platform_ post Loom. He never said anything about Functional Reactive Programming in general.


But even this statement is incorrect. FRP frameworks with Observables will remain useful in Java (as they have in other languages that already had coroutines). It's only the use of Observables as _an alternative for coroutines_ that is a transitional technology.

Maybe this is what Brian Goetz meant to say, but this is not what he said.


In the US...



Thank you. The op was so full of ads i couldn't even read it.


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